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Last week, "Internet marketer" Scott Richter got off with a slap on the wrist in one of the most high-profile spam cases in recent months. New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer sued Richter, president of OptInRealBig.com, back in December for sending deceptive junk email, and promised to...

Turns out Woody Guthrie lifted the melody of "This Land Is Your Land" essentially note-for-note from "When the World's on Fire," a song recorded by country/bluegrass legends, The Carter Family, ten years before Guthrie wrote his classic song. Here's a short snippet (380k mp3) of the song (the song...

As mentioned earlier this week, Ludlow Music Inc., owner of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," is invoking copyright in an effort to silence JibJab's very funny "This Land" animated short (here is Ludlow's latest threat letter).
EFF has taken JibJab on as a client. We've...

A court decision today in a case against people accused of sharing copyrighted files on peer-to-peer networks brought some good news for those concerned about the way the recording industry is pursuing its litigation campaign. In Sony v. Does 1-40, Judge Denny Chin denied (PDF) a motion to stop...

Red Hat Sponsors the Fourth Annual EFF Freedom Fest at LinuxWorld August 4 San Francisco, CA - For the past four years, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been thanking its members for their support with a free outdoor concert called Freedom Fest. This year's event will be bigger and better...

The two brothers who created the fantastic "This Land" parody -- sending up President Bush, Senator Kerry, and the current state of American democracy to the tune of "This Land is Your Land" -- have been threatened with a copyright lawsuit.
You see, the classic American song...

Susan Crawford, responding to the Jonathan Krim article we mentioned earlier today about TiVo and the FCC's broadcast flag mandate (PDF): The flag was supposed to be about indiscriminate online distribution. TiVo is trying to provide a device that allows 10 people within a personal network...

For a while there, it looked like TiVo could avoid (some of) the copyright battles that felled the competition by playing nice with the content industry. But as this MSNBC Washington Post article shows, sometimes even asking for permission to innovate isn't enough: Hollywood studios and the National...

Siva Vaidhyanthan in today's Salon, on the IICA/Induce Act: "While industry lobbyists swear they would go only after the proprietors of peer-to-peer services, they don't have much credibility. After all, they have already taken the makers of videorecorders and MP3 players to court. Why wouldn't they do...

Now that the Supreme Court has upheld a preliminary injunction in the COPA case, it's time to turn our attention to another important obscenity case that has broad implications for the future of online anonymity. Within the next year, a federal court in New York City will announce...

By Cindy Cohn Over the past week we've seen several media stories suggesting that the electronic voting machine issue is partisan. While there are certainly folks who would like to portray it that way, including Jeb Bush and unfortunately last week, the Washington Post, it's not true...